Charatkar of Insuli village in Sindhudurg district has a rapport with the crocodiles. The 38-year-old poultry trader says he has been feeding crocodiles chicken meat for more than a decade. He feeds the crocodiles twice a week. Charatkar’s relationship with the reptiles started when he spotted two babies close in the river and started feeding them. […]
GANDHINAGAR: Ahmed Patel, Rajya Sabha MP from Gujarat has written a letter to the prime minister Narendra Modi over the lions’ in the state and requested him to take quick action. Patel, in his letter to Modi, wrote, More than 23 of them have died in last three weeks and over 180 since 2016. The […]
The decision comes amid shocking deaths of 23 of a 26-strong pride of lions from the deadly CDV and babesiosis infection outbreak in Gir Ganpat Vasava, forest and environment minister, said: “We’ve decided to fast-track the shifting of lions to Barda Dungar. This will be their second home within the state” The state has come under […]
GANDHINAGAR: Following the death of 23 lions — 11 of which were felled by viral infections — the Gujarat cabinet has directed the animal husbandry department to immunize all the cattle in 100-odd villages around the Gir sanctuary.
Junagarh: To protect the world’s last remaining Asiatic lions, a vaccine for more than 500 of the big cats in and around the Gir Forest National Park in Gujarat have reached India from the United States. Officials of the Forest Department of Gujarat have arrived in Mumbai to get hold of the crucial shots, which are likely […]
JAIPUR: Leopard safari at Jhalana, which has hogged limelight on the international circuit of wildlife lovers, will be inaugurated by chief minister Vasundhra Raje. The project has been developed under the state government’s ambitious Project Leopard, a first in the country. The wildlife safari, which was a pending proposal during the Congress government, is said to be […]
A 26-member strong pride of the endangered Asiatic lions in Gujarat has almost been wiped out with 23 lions dying in the last 20 days and the three surviving members of the pride battling for life. The lions succumbed to the deadly infection of canine distemper virus (CDV) and tick-borne babesiosis. The Gir sanctuary in […]
JAIPUR: Wildlife tourism in the state will reach a new high as forest department is set to introduce a lion safari at the Nahargarh Biological Park for wildlife enthusiasts, residents and tourists from Wednesday. Forest minister Gajendra Singh Khimsar inaugurated the lion safari in September. The forest department will now finally throw open the park […]
All 10 Asiatic lions, rescued from the Dalkhaniya Range in Amreli district following the death of 11 big cats, have died at the Jasadhar animal care centre. The lions succumbed one after another between September 20 and September 30, sending a shockwave in Asia’s solitary abode for lions. RAJKOT/AHMEDABAD: All 10 Asiatic lions, rescued from […]
The two cubs, a male and female, born on August 25 are healthy and normal. Lions are extinct in 26 African countries and numbers in the wild have plummeted 43 percent over the last two decades, with roughly only 20,000 left, according to the IUCN. BRITS (South Africa): Watching the two little lion cubs boisterously […]
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